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""Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly."" ― James Dyson Robots don't fail alone. They fail when they interact. With humans. With other robots. With the physical world. At scale. Volume 2 exists because single-robot thinking collapses the moment systems leave controlled environments. This book is not about clever algorithms. It is about system behavior under compounded complexity. Why interaction breaks roboticsThe moment a robot touches the world, coordinates with others, or shares control with a human, the problem changes. Control becomes regulation. Planning becomes negotiation. Learning becomes fragile. Volume 2 focuses on what most robotics books avoid: Contact-rich interaction and embodiment Human-robot interaction under uncertainty Shared autonomy, trust, and predictability Multi-robot coordination and communication limits Large-scale simulation where emergent behavior appears This is where robotics stops being clean. What this book actually coversEvery chapter is built around interaction-driven failure: Contact dynamics, friction, compliance, and morphology trade-offs Energy-aware and degradation-aware behavior Human intent modeling and uncertainty-aware interaction Learning from demonstrations in simulation Trust, transparency, and shared control Multi-robot emergence, coordination, and collapse modes Communication-constrained systems at scale Nothing is treated as intuitive. Everything is measured. Who this book is forThis book is for engineers and researchers building: Human-interactive systems Multi-robot and swarm systems Long-running, large-scale robotic deployments It assumes you already understand robotics fundamentals. If Volume 1 teaches discipline, Volume 2 teaches consequences. Final wordVolume 2 is about what happens when robots interact. Not demos. Not hope. Not theory divorced from reality. It shows you how to surface failure before deployment, not after. If your robots must interact, scale, or persist, Experimental Robotics Projects - Volume 2 belongs on your desk.

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